Then when that runs out, he could come into the US as an illegal immigrant (oops! I meant to say undocumented citizen), and collect similar benefits. Why haven't I thought of that?
Lol crazy hey!
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Then when that runs out, he could come into the US as an illegal immigrant (oops! I meant to say undocumented citizen), and collect similar benefits. Why haven't I thought of that?
Lol crazy hey!
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Hendo,
Hope you don`t mind me chiming in on this.
I have 90 watts of panels to each of my 200ah main batteries (the IG has an odd set up) via good digital controllers which tell you what is going on. A friend and I did the install, made my own mounting brackets,and I`m nowhere near as handy as you. I still have a genset, but also have happy well charged batteries, even a 25w panel serving the genset battery via a simple controller. I bought all the equipment on Ebay, don`t be afraid of that.
Panels need to be as unobstructed as possible,preferably no shadowing no matter how small, and need an airspace underneath to prevent overheating. I put fuses in the + line just before the batteries, found that tip in a helpful Don Casey article you should find by online search. You can locate your controller(s) in a good place, mine had to go in the ER.
Both PeterB, and Rebel, have solar. Rebel (John) lives in Perth, boat is/was? in Sydney,he recently fitted 400w of panel to replace a genset and is very approachable. In March he anchored in my bay and was running a fridge with ice cream in it. Try a PM.
In my experience the real panel output is about half the theoretical.